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This is a reply I received for ***************** after I sent quite blunt message at my disappointment of removal of S5 cream. Why does it seem that there is so must nonsense stopping progress when comes to hair loss products.
The spiro was removed because the FDA decided it was illegal to sell online. You may or may not be familiar with the FDA Dr. Lee witch hunt of 2005-ish where one of the most esteemed names in hair loss (Dr. Richard Lee) was shut down and threatened with jailtime if he didn’t stop selling such inert things as: minoxidil in concentrations greater than 5%, topical spironolactone, and other completely harmless products.
Spironolactone is a prescription ingredient and for that reason it is illegal to sell online unless you are a pharmacy that the FDA recognizes. This is why the makers of S5 Cream were forced to stop producing and selling it, and instead were forced to come up with a formulation that the FDA doesn’t regulate: natural ingredients. These guys are honest and genuinely want to provide products that work. So they did their best to read the published data and find ingredients shown to act as antiandrogens.
Follione is no more of a scam than Revivogen, Folligen, Kourosh DHT blocker, or any of the other *adjunct* products we tell people to use in addition to Propecia and Rogaine. In fact there are literally hundreds of actual “scam” products for hair loss, and outright snake oils on the market. The adjunct products we recommend are so few in number that its almost comical. We could be selling countless products if we had no actual standards for what we carry.
That being said, the only solution the FDA has left everyone is to have your doctor contact a compounding pharmacy and request that they create a 2% cream or lotion with crushed spironolactone in it. You can also google for tutorials online on how to create your own. It’s not difficult. But its irritating and frustrating that anyone has to resort to this. I agree.
In any case – you have no idea how much time and effort I spent trying to find a way to get it on the shelf. It was either sell S5 cream or go to jail.
The spiro was removed because the FDA decided it was illegal to sell online. You may or may not be familiar with the FDA Dr. Lee witch hunt of 2005-ish where one of the most esteemed names in hair loss (Dr. Richard Lee) was shut down and threatened with jailtime if he didn’t stop selling such inert things as: minoxidil in concentrations greater than 5%, topical spironolactone, and other completely harmless products.
Spironolactone is a prescription ingredient and for that reason it is illegal to sell online unless you are a pharmacy that the FDA recognizes. This is why the makers of S5 Cream were forced to stop producing and selling it, and instead were forced to come up with a formulation that the FDA doesn’t regulate: natural ingredients. These guys are honest and genuinely want to provide products that work. So they did their best to read the published data and find ingredients shown to act as antiandrogens.
Follione is no more of a scam than Revivogen, Folligen, Kourosh DHT blocker, or any of the other *adjunct* products we tell people to use in addition to Propecia and Rogaine. In fact there are literally hundreds of actual “scam” products for hair loss, and outright snake oils on the market. The adjunct products we recommend are so few in number that its almost comical. We could be selling countless products if we had no actual standards for what we carry.
That being said, the only solution the FDA has left everyone is to have your doctor contact a compounding pharmacy and request that they create a 2% cream or lotion with crushed spironolactone in it. You can also google for tutorials online on how to create your own. It’s not difficult. But its irritating and frustrating that anyone has to resort to this. I agree.
In any case – you have no idea how much time and effort I spent trying to find a way to get it on the shelf. It was either sell S5 cream or go to jail.
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